Telkom says Icasa’s equity rules go beyond the B-BBEE Act and may have deterred network investment.
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The internet is roasting Nvidia Jensen Huang over his affair with Alice Huang using generative AI.
Four import-export licences are out, but the electricity regulator’s import and export rules are not.
He will be the distributor’s third CEO since mid-2025, after Emile Burger left in July following just 14 months in charge.
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After a lull of just two days, Eskom will revert to cutting the power because it can’t keep up with demand for its only product.
A striking number of mid-sized companies in South Africa that have been hit by ransomware attacks are paying the attackers, new research has found.
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Eskom on Monday warned that its system is again under “severe” pressure, and that load shedding during the evening peak is a distinct possibility.
South African miners are battling a growing threat kilometres underground in the world’s deepest platinum shafts.
Eskom said it would reduce load shedding to stage 1 from 10pm on Friday evening, even though plant breakdowns remain high at 16GW of capacity.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its massive Falcon Heavy rocket on Thursday for Saudi Arabia’s Arabsat, the rocket’s first mission for a paying customer.
Uber Technologies has spent more than US$1-billion on autonomous vehicle technology to compete with giants such as Alphabet, Apple and General Motors.
Facebook is rolling out a slew of new and expanded ways to rein in the spread of misinformation across its websites and apps, amid heightened global scrutiny of social networks’ actions to remove false and violent content.
YouTube is developing choose-your-own-adventure-style shows, exploring a new storytelling format that could increase viewers and ad sales for the world’s largest video website.
In 1086, William the Conqueror completed a comprehensive survey of England and Wales. The Domesday Book, as it came to be called, contained details of 13 418 places and 112 boroughs — and is still available for public inspection at the National Archives in London. Not so the original version of a new survey that was commissioned for the
Picture yourself as a historian in 2035, trying to make sense of this year’s American election campaign. Many of the websites and blogs now abuzz with news and comment will have long since perished. Data stored electronically decays. Many floppy disks from the early digital age are already unreadable. If you are lucky, copies of

































